I have an iPod touch, and it works just fine with the apple headphones that include a mic. I didn't want to shell out for another pair of headphones, so I use the ones that came free with my Blackberry (also includes a mic) and that works fine too. I believe the earlier generation iPod touch required an external mic attached to the dock connector but the current models can use any headphone/mic in a standard size jack.

Gerald writes: "After the most recent Wireshark release
a certain AV vendor's product started warning users that the installer contained adware. Since then, I've spent several hours verifying this isn't the case, trying to get the AV vendor to fix their stuff, and reassuring affected users that we do not ship adware with our product.

Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated case. I've had to do this
several times over the past few years, and each incident uses up time that could have been better spent elsewhere. It's even worse for other projects.
If you produce software, have you ever suffered collateral damage from AV false positives?"

utlemming writes: Novell today announced the details of the Novell/Microsoft Deal. Found on Novell's website, the details state that Microsoft and Novell will allow each other's OS products to run as guest operating systems. Other details include eDirectory and Active Directory integration and document format compatibility.

draos writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting(Subscription required) that "A group of major media companies has accused Internet giant Google Inc. of benefiting from the sale of pirated movies and providing business support to two Web sites suspected of offering access to illegal film downloads, according to several people familiar with the matter." According to the article Google's response: "On Friday, Google responded to the complaints by agreeing to implement a series of measures it believes will help thwart piracy. In an afternoon conference call with studio representatives, lawyers for Google said the company would remove certain ads the companies objected to, create a list of approved advertisers and refrain from selling keywords used by rogue sites to lure users to pirated material. In addition, the Google lawyers said the company would introduce internal guidelines on monitoring keywords and train its ad sales force about how to avoid selling such ads."
The article is also reported here(searchengineland.com).

sebelk writes: OpenKairos have interviewed to URPMI mantainer, Pascal Rigaux, who is a Mandriva/Mandrakesoft historic man. And what is URPMI? It's the system that uses Mandriva to make easy pacakges installation. Pixel tells us technical and chronological details about URPMI. Also, answer sto questions about RPM and DEB formats, and other interesting topics.
Complete story is here

SpaceAdmiral writes: "Intel has designed a processor capable of 1.01 trillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS) that uses only 62 watts of power. Although the chip may not make it to market in its current incarnation, it's an important proof of concept that could lead to commercial versions."